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Red Triangle Badge Against FGM
Freedom Charity · Anti-FGM campaign
The Red Triangle
A small symbol. A serious purpose.
Wear the Red Triangle. Stand against FGM. The badge is a visible campaign symbol against female genital mutilation — designed to start informed conversations about safeguarding, prevention and the right of every girl to live free from FGM.
The badge is not a safeguarding qualification. Wearing it shows opposition to FGM; it does not certify that a person or organisation is trained, safe or compliant with safeguarding duties.
What it means
A visible rejection of FGM and an invitation to understand the law, warning signs and routes to help.
Who can use it
Individuals, schools, universities, police teams, health and social-care staff, workplaces, charities and public bodies.
What purchase supports
Freedom’s charitable work on FGM, safeguarding, education and public awareness.
Freedom’s campaign song
Not in My Name (End FGM)
Freedom’s Red Triangle message in music. Written by Aneeta Prem MBE for Freedom Charity, the song invites everyone — including boys and young men — to reject FGM and support prevention through education.
Lyrics: Aneeta Prem MBE. Music created with assistance from Suno under a paid subscription licence. The campaign video includes AI-assisted visuals. Watch on YouTube ↗
Buy the badge
How to buy the Red Triangle badge
Choose a single Red Triangle badge or a pack for your school, team or organisation. Follow the product link, check the current price and delivery details, add your choice to the basket and complete checkout through the Freedom Charity shop.
Team pack of 10
£45
For a small team or community group.
Organisation pack of 25
£105
For workplaces, public services and larger groups.
School class pack of 34
£136
For a school class or group.
Organisation pack of 50
£187.50
For larger teams and organisations.
Looking for our books and other campaign products? Browse the Freedom Shop. For questions about an order, contact Freedom Charity.
Campaign history
From symbol to national campaign
Freedom launched the Red Triangle national anti-FGM campaign with the National Police Chiefs’ Council in February 2017. The aim was deliberately simple: make opposition to FGM visible and give people an opening for a serious safeguarding conversation.
Freedom later used the Red Triangle in public awareness work including airport activity and education. The campaign sits alongside, rather than instead of, Freedom’s FGM information, school resources, Cut Flowers, training and helpline routes.
Know the issue
FGM law behind the symbol
FGM is illegal throughout the UK. In England and Wales the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, strengthened by the Serious Crime Act 2015, provides the main criminal offences, FGM Protection Orders, lifelong anonymity for victims, a failure-to-protect offence and mandatory reporting for defined known cases involving girls under 18.
Core FGM offences can carry up to 14 years’ imprisonment. Breaching an FGM Protection Order can carry up to five years’ imprisonment.
For organisations
What wearing it should lead to
Schools
Use the badge with age-appropriate teaching, staff safeguarding knowledge and a clear disclosure route. Do not turn a campaign day into a request for pupils to reveal personal experiences.
Police
Use awareness activity to support recognition and reporting, while keeping operational safeguarding separate from campaigning.
Health
Pair the symbol with accurate information about health consequences, mandatory reporting and specialist NHS support.
Social care
Use campaign material to support prevention, but rely on statutory safeguarding procedures when an individual child is at risk.
Universities
Use the campaign to connect student awareness with health, wellbeing, safeguarding and referral routes.
Employers
Make staff awareness visible, but ensure HR, safeguarding and security teams know where to refer real concerns.
Prosecutions
Why awareness must connect to law
England and Wales secured its first FGM conviction in 2019; the CPS records a second conviction involving assisting FGM overseas in 2023 and, in 2024, the first conviction for conspiracy to commit FGM, in a case that also involved forced marriage. Those cases show that prevention, protection and prosecution all matter.
Take part
Wear it. Share it. Know what to do next.
Use the Red Triangle throughout the year, including on 6 February, the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM. Pair it with Freedom’s full FGM guide and safeguarding routes.
Freedom Charity
Built to be checked.
Freedom Charity was co-founded in 2009 by Aneeta Prem MBE and Lord Toby Harris. The charity’s public record connects safeguarding, education, books, technology, campaigns, professional training, policy and routes to help. Where Freedom reports its own reach, it labels it as Freedom data; where an external source verifies a milestone, the source is linked.
Questions about the badge
Red Triangle badge: common questions
Where can I buy a Red Triangle badge?
Buy a single badge from Freedom Charity, or choose a school, team or organisation pack in the Freedom Shop. The product pages show current prices and ordering details.
Can schools and organisations buy badges in packs?
Yes. There are packs of 10, 25 and 50 badges, plus a school class pack of 34. Choose the relevant product above to order.
What does the Red Triangle badge stand for?
It is Freedom Charity’s visible campaign symbol against female genital mutilation (FGM). Wearing it can start an informed conversation, but it is not proof of safeguarding training or accreditation.
Where can I find FGM safeguarding information?
Read Freedom’s FGM guide and helpline information for routes to help. Professionals should follow their own safeguarding responsibilities and procedures.
The Red Triangle · Freedom Charity
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Original photographs from Freedom’s campaign and supporter archive. Select any image to see the full photograph.
The Red Triangle is a visible symbol against FGM. Wearing a badge does not replace safeguarding training or professional duties.